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THE STORY OF THE OAK TREE 
books are not full of long words but are simply written 
so that everyone can enjoy them. 
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When Charles Darwin the Englishman was no longer 
young, there was born in Massachusetts a little baby 
who when he grew up was to be known everywhere as 
the “plant wizard,” because he could help Nature to 
create plants that she could not make alone. 
This baby’s name was Euther Burbank, and he had 
barely learned to smile before he began to show his love 
for flowers. If anyone gave him a flower he would lie 
Luther Burbank 
In his cradle holding it tenderly in his tiny fingers, never 
crushing or dropping it, but keeping it until it faded or 
<iied. One day his sister gave him a daisy, and after he 
